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...will tell you. It came in a vision — a man appeared in a flaming pie and said unto them 'From this day on you are Beatles with an A.' 'Thank you, Mi
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...ers from pristine vinyl, and that he'd no longer be offering his remasters and was abandoning his years-long project. As he said, he only initiated his pr
...ed with meticulous attention to detail, Dr. Ebbetts brought out the warmth and shine sorely lacking from the official EMI releases. The blue box collectio
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Many many Beatles videos and clips, organized by album, concerts, movies & radio.-->
...modern mixes of Beatles tunes — The Beatles reinterpreted, reimagined and remixed!
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...w. And me, impatient, 'Life is very short and there's no time/ for fussing and fighting, my friend.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}
...ther, which is nice-- 'Life is very short/ And there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend.' Then it was George Harrison's idea to put the middle i
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{{cquote|We always try to do something different. And this idea's a bit different. Years ago my Auntie Lil said to me, 'Why can't
...bluesy song, not a lot of melody. Then I had the idea to do the harmonies, and we arranged that in the studio.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}
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...just happened to put it on my own tape recorder and it came out backwards. And I liked it better. So that's how it happened.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|
...fixed, with the earphones on, with a big hash joint. I ran in the next day and said, 'I know what to do with it, I know... listen to this!' So I made them
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...your finger on it, it slips away, right? You know, you turn the lights on and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them.|quotewidth=500px|John L
...l lose it, but it might just sound good.' You'd then find, 'Oh it worked,' and they were secretly glad because they had been the engineer who put three ti
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...ed 'Scrambled Egg' for a couple of months, until I thought of 'Yesterday.' And that's it. True story.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1968}}
...r 'Yesterday.' That's Paul's song, and Paul's baby. Well done. Beautiful-- and I never wished I'd written it.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}
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...Penny Lane, and the Cast Iron Shore, which I've just got in some song now, and they were just good names — just groovy names. Just good sounding. Bec
...my friends nor anybody could ever see what I did. It was very, very scary and the only contact I had was reading about an Oscar Wilde or a Dylan Thomas o
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...a fine and wonderful message to say, really. So we just put the track down and the we did the vocal. So we've still got mine, ready to do for the next one
...e'll have some more orchestra around this little three-piece with a drum.' There was no conception about how it should sound like at the end until we did it
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{{Cquote|One of us might think of a song completely, and the other might just add a bit. Or we might write alternate lines. We never
...was a period when I thought I didn't write melodies, that Paul wrote those and I just wrote straight, shouting rock 'n' roll. But, of course, when I think
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...and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, shit, I picked the wrong guy
...knocked the rest of it off. Then I had the whole verse or verse and a half and then sang it. I had this idea of doing a song that was a police siren, but
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...sion, and at the end of it all we had all the words, we had the harmonies, and we had all the little bits.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Paul McCartn
...he album, the guitars and janglin' piano or whatever. It's a heavy record, and the drums are heavy too. That's why I like it.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon
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#"[[Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey]]"
...hn supplied the hypnotic picking which opens and runs throughout the song) and Paul on drums [Ringo had "quit" the band on Aug 22 but, after a family holi
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...In 'Baby You're a Rich Man' the point was, stop moaning. You're a rich man and we're all rich men, heh, heh, baby!|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1968}}
...aby, You're A Rich Man' was co-written by John and me at Cavendish Avenue. There was lots of talk in the newspapers about the beautiful people. That was wha
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...ay stop, I say go. I was advocating the more positive side of the duality, and I still do to this day.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}
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...ar against the amp. The song itself was more John's than mine. We sat down and co-wrote it with John's original idea. John sang it, I'm on harmonies.|quot
...ur feet a-tapping, as the reviews say. I suppose it has a bit of a country-and-western feel about it, but then so have a lot of our songs. The middle-eigh
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...s day I suppose, and I said, 'It's been a hard day...' and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, '...night!' So we came to ''A Hard Day's Night''
...clock. You mean a hard day's night, don't you? We all looked at each other and said, 'That's it. That's the title we've been after.'|quotewidth=500px|John
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...me on.' We were so excited to say 'turn me on' --you know, about marijuana and all that... using it as an expression.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}
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...lot of people were fans of Little Richard so I used to sing his stuff, but there came a point when I wanted to do one of my own, so I wrote 'I'm Down.'|quot
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...when you grow up, you calm down a little. Anyway, I was fat and depressed and I was crying out for help.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}
{{cquote|John wrote that... well, John and I wrote it at his house in Weybridge for the film. I think the title was ou
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{{cquote|That's mine. Including the guitar lick, the guitar break, and the whole bit. It's just a rock 'n roll song. Day trippers are people who g
{{cquote|Acid was coming on the scene, and we'd often do these songs about 'the girl who thought she was it.' Mainly t
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| Producer = [[George Martin]] and [[Chris Thomas]]
| Next single = "[[The Long and Winding Road]]" / "[[For You Blue]]" <br />(1970)
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...e a monster that sucks . . . And all things like that, they just took them and never credited. They wanted another song; I knocked off "Hey Bulldog." It's
...That was the basic idea. And there's nothing more to be read into it than there is in the lyrics of any children's song.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|19
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...ong down to John's house in Weybridge. We sat around, laughing, got stoned and finished it off.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1966}}
...ristol. I was wandering round Bristol one day and saw a shop called Rigby. And I think Eleanor was from Eleanor Bron, the actress we worked with in the fi
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...which is a long tunnel through which the dockers go to work on Merseyside, and Penny Lane near my old home.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1966}}
...d people waiting and the inspector stood there, the fire engines were down there. It was just reliving childhood.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1968}}
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...a very complicated and extremely good piano track played entirely by Paul, and a measure of his great musicianship. Paul could play the drums, technically
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{{cquote|I went back [to India] in 1967 to record the ''Wonderwall'' album, and also did the ''Inner Light'' track...|George Harrison|''I, Me, Mine'', orig
...very happy, it is a moving song and may it move the souls of millions; and there is more to come, as you are only beginning on the great journey'.
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...." I always thought it was about me and Yoko, but he said it was about him and his.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1972}}
...ion.' Some of the words were: 'The movement you need is on your shoulder,' and John was saying, 'It's great!' I'm saying, 'It's crazy, it doesn't make any
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{{cquote|On 'Revolution' I'm playing the guitar and I haven't improved since I was last playing, but I dug it. It sounds the wa
...rian Epstein had stopped us from saying anything about Vietnam or the war. And he wouldn't allow questions about it. But on one of the last tours, I said,
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| Next single = "[[Ballad of John and Yoko]]"/ "[[Old Brown Shoe]]"<br />(1969)
{{cquote|We'd been talking about it since we recorded it, and we kept saying 'That's a single.' Eventually we got so fed up talking about
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| Next single = "[[Ballad of John and Yoko]]"/ "[[Old Brown Shoe]]"<br />(1969)
...t was a good song. We recorded it in the basement of Apple for 'Let It Be' and later did it up on the roof for the film. We went through it quite alot for
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| Name = Ballad of John and Yoko
| Cover = ballad-of-john-and-yoko.jpg
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| Cover = ballad-of-john-and-yoko.jpg
| A-side = "[[Ballad of John and Yoko]]"
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| Last single = "[[Ballad of John and Yoko]]" / "[[Old Brown Shoe]]"<br/>(1969)
...ght away while you're still in the same mood.' Sometimes you go back to it and you're in a whole different state of mind. So now, I do try to finish them
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| Name = The Long and Winding Road
| Cover = the-long-and-winding-road.jpg
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| A-side = "[[The Long and Winding Road]]"
| Producer = [[George Martin]] and [[Phil Spector]]
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| Last single = "[[Yesterday]]" (UK-1976)<br/>-<br/> "[[The Long and Winding Road]]" / "[[For You Blue]]"<br/>(1970)
{{cquote|I think George and I helped with some of the lyrics. I'm not sure.|quotewidth=500px|John Lenno
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...e echo at all. So I thought, "Oh, well, ''we'll'' do one like that, then." And I had this song called "Helter Skelter", which is just a ridiculous song. S
...sed to have a laugh about this, that or the other, in a light-hearted way, and some intellectual would read us, some symbolic youth generation wants to se
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...n almighty amount of volume, twice the speed of how they'd done it before, and said, 'This is ''it''! Come ''on''!' He was really aggravated. That was the
...|quotewidth=500px|Geoff Emerick, EMI Recording Engineer, ''Here, There and Everywhere'' with John Massey|2006}}
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...ant to Hold Your Hand]]" / "[[This Boy]]" (UK) <br/> "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US)(1963)
...is like I did on 'You Can't Do That.' There really isn't a lead guitarist and a rhythm guitarist on that, because I feel the rhythm guitarist role sounds
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| Genre = [[Rock and roll]]
...today, sometime in the future, so the song projects itself into the future and then is nostalgic about the moment we're living now, which is quite a good
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| Next single = "[[And I Love Her]]"<br/>(US-1964)<br/>—<br/>"[[Back in the U.S.S.R.]]"<br/>
...a song with harmonica we feature during the opening tram sequences — and 'Tell Me Why', a shuffle number that comes at the end of the film.|quotewid
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| B-side = "[[This Boy]]" (UK)<br/>"[[I Saw Her Standing There]]"(US)
...ant to Hold Your Hand" / "[[This Boy]]"(UK 1963)<br/>"[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US 1964)
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...s a period when I thought I didn't write melodies... that Paul wrote those and I just wrote straight, shouting rock 'n roll. But of course, when I think o
{{cquote|Fabulous. And we just loved singing that three-part too. We'd learned that from: (sings)
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| Name = I Saw Her Standing There
| This single = "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]" / "I Saw Her Standing There"<br/>(US 1964)<br/>-<br/>"[[This Boy]]" <br/>(UK 1963)
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...Your Hand]]" / "[[This Boy]]" (UK 1963) <br/>-<br/> "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US 1964)
...e Loves You' then. And we just sat up in the hotel bedroom for a few hours and wrote it, you know.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1963}}
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...Your Hand]]" / "[[This Boy]]" (UK 1963) <br/>-<br/> "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US 1964)
...and get more ideas. We wrote 'I'll Get You,' which is the B-side, first. And then 'She Loves You' came after that... We got ideas from that. Then we re
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....' It could be done as an old Ragtime tune... especially the middle-eight. And so, we're not writing the tunes in any particular idiom. In five years time
...know it was mine. (humms melody) And then after that we just took it from there. We were just writing the next single. It was far bluesier than that when w
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